Title: Zetsubou Baby (絶望ベイビー) (Hopeless Baby) Mangaka: Hina Sakurada (桜田雛) Language: Japanese Publisher/Publication: Shougakukan / Monthly Cheese! Year: Aug 2014 – Feb 2015 Genre: Shoujo, romance, drama, comedy Warnings: There is a near rape scene that I found frightening. It serves the purpose of the story and is portrayed as violence and hate as it should be. ISBN: Volume 1
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Yeeks! It’s only March 11th and I’ve bought this much! I bought three bundles from Amazon JP since there’s a 10% off sale and the bundles are charged the same shipping fee as a single book. I ordered most of the single books from Books Kinokuniya and the English language manga from Amazon US. There’s another order being process through
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First a bit of business: “Kanojo ni Naru Hi — Another” Volume 2 releases on March 5th. If you enjoy this series, please show Ogura-sensei some love with your money. Here are links to purchase: ISBN: 9784592195429 Amazon JP / Yes Asia / Amazon US (coming soon) / Kinokuniya (coming soon) This was the most shoujo chapter of “Kanojo ni
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“Ao-Natsu” is on the cover of Bessatsu Friend this month. The furoko is a collection of “Seishun” (“Youth”) oneshots called “Ao-Koi” (“Blue-Love”). It contains 7 stories. There was also a lovely “Hana-kun to Koisure Watashi” poster. I’m sorry for the crappy photo; the poster was too big from my scanner so I took a photo with my phone. Here’s the
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Chapter 8 introduced a character I hate. I wanted to reach inside of the pages to smack that gold-digging Koizumi woman! Do women really go to college campuses prowling for grad student husbands?! Ugh… Well, I’ve seen women prowling bars where young doctors and interns hang out after work, so I suppose it’s possible. But that is so obviously gold
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